To the editor:

The 2,465 page Build Back Better bill was filled with “pork”. The cost went from “zero dollars” to $3.5 trillion to over $5 trillion.

Almost $80 billion would have gone to weaponizing the IRS to assist in looking at transactions in your account that were over $600, later raised to $10,000. There is also around $12 billion for electric cars, $1 trillion to turn government facilities into “green buildings”, new funding for gender identity issues and bias training, massively expanding federal tax dollars for abortions without the Hyde amendment protections while limiting seniors’ access to new cures and treatments by imposing socialist price controls on prescription drugs, subsidizing union members’ dues and on and on….

How were they going to pay for this bill?

While targeting large corporations and wealthy taxpayers was an option, much of those taxes would have been passed down to families through higher prices for goods and lower wages for employees.

Other options were a multi-trillion dollar progressive tax that would have fueled record inflation on everyday goods, tax hikes on Americans and small businesses, tax hikes on families making less than $400,000, a natural gas tax, just to name a few…meanwhile, giving amnesty to 6.5 million illegal immigrants while failing to secure our southern border.

The Build Back Better bill should have been named the Build Back Broke bill due to adding billions of dollars to the federal debt and strapping our children and grandchildren to pay for the recklessness.

Thank you Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach for voting no on this bill, expecting better and being fiscally conservative.

Tiffany Lesmeister-Knott

Wabasso